Steven Tyler Injured in Paraguay

Steven Tyler performs recently in Las Vegas.

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Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler reportedly was rushed to the hospital earlier today after knocking out two teeth in a fall in the shower in Paraguay, where the band is on tour. Tonight's concert was postponed.

The singer and 'American Idol' judge has a history of mishaps. No word yet on the status of Aerosmith's current tour of Latin America.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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